page_title: Juan Huarte de San Juan
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Juan Huarte de San Juan / Work
caption_attribution_description: Español: Portada del libro "The examination of mens wits", publicado por Juan Huarte de San Juan en Londres en 1594.
context_page_description: Juan Huarte de San Juan or Juan Huarte y Navarro was a Spanish physician and psychologist.
context_section_description: Huarte published the first edition of his Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (The Examination of Men's Wits) in 1575, which won him a European reputation, and was translated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Despite its initial proscription by the Inquisition, copies of the Examen were found in many of Barcelona's public and private libraries (including those of Joaquín Setantí, Jeroni Tarrassa, Joan Nadal de Prats, Pau Ignasi de Dalmases and the library of the Jesuit school).  Though now superseded, Huarte's treatise is historically interesting as the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology, and its acute ingenuity is as remarkable as the boldness of its views. After his death, a second, revised and expurgated (by the Inquisition) version was published. Between 1575 and 1800, sixty different editions of Examen were published. During the 16th, 17th and 18th century, the Examen was translated into six European languages: French, Italian, English, Latin, German and Dutch. Richard Carew was the translator of Examen de Ingenios into English, basing his translation on Camilli's Italian version. (This book is the first systematic attempt to relate physiology with psychology, though based on the medicine of Galen. Four editions of this translation were published: in 1594, 1596, 1604 and 1616.)
caption: Front page of ″The examination of mens wits″ (edition 1594; first English edition).
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